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Lauren Wimf.r | Senior photographer
Kelly, front, and Julie Anne explore the newly reopened Museum of Natural and
Cultural History on Friday. The museum was closed for 13 months for renovation.
History museum reopens
after 13 months' renovation
BY MORIAH BALINGIT
NEWS REPORTER
In 1972, a little-known University
alumni named Phil Knight revolution
ized footwear when he started selling
a Japanese-imported running shoe to
Oregon athletes. And while Knight’s
product evolved into the most popu
lar athletic footwear in the world, an
other Oregonian may have beat him
to the punch — by a long shot.
Ten thousand years ago, an un
known Oregonian fashioned a pair of
sandals out of sagebrush bark that
have survived to this day. They
are the oldest pair of footwear
ever discovered.
The sandals, found in Eastern Ore
gon by Dr. Thomas Condon in 1930,
are currently housed in the recently
reopened University Museum of Nat
ural and Cultural History and are part
of the museum’s newly renovated
exhibit, “Oregon — Where Past
is Present.”
The museum opened its doors to
the public Friday for the first time
since closing 13 months ago for a
$1 million makeover. The opening
weekend began at noon with a bless
ing by Lakota tribe member Dwight
Souers, comments by University
HISTORY, page 4
UO cancels
contentious
professor's
campus visit
A University of Colorado
professor's remarks about Sept. 11
have ignited nationwide debate
BY ADAM CHERRY
NEWS REPORTER
University of Colorado professor Ward
Churchill, a figure of controversy in recent
weeks because of comments he made about the
Sept. 11 attacks, has had his April 1 speech at
the University canceled.
Churchill was scheduled to give the keynote
lunch address at a symposium titled “Home
land ‘In’Security: Race, Immigration and La
bor in Post-9/11 North America,” a joint pres
entation of the Wayne Morse Center for Law
and Politics and the Center on Diversity
and Community.
Directors of the two programs said they “took
the initiative” to terminate plans for Churchill
and his colleague, Natsu Taylor Saito, to speak
at the symposium because they wanted the
PROFESSOR, page 8
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Danielle Hickey | Photo editor
Steven Neuman | Managing editor
Foam spews out of the fountain on the
corner of East 8th Avenue and Oak
Street in downtown Eugene, above, and
the fountain in front of the Student
Recreation Center on Sunday
afternoon. Both the Eugene Police
Department and the Department of
Public Safety said there were no other
reports of similar incidents, but they
had no additional information.
Kate Horton | Photographer
Urva Kuzma, a University peer health education practicum student, explains some
of the goodies available on Valentine’s Day for the opening of the University Health
Resource Center in the EMU.
University Health Center opens
new resource office inside EMU
BY KARA HANSEN
NEWS REPORTER
The University Health Center will
extend its health education program
and offer students an alternative way
to celebrate Valentine’s Day.
The University’s peer health educa
tors will open the doors of a new re
source center at the EMU, handing out
Valentine’s Day packets with Hershey
Kisses, lubricant and condoms to hon
or the day’s other moniker: National
Condom Day.
Health center Director Tom Ryan
said the resource center will reach
students who miss out on health ed
ucation because they don’t go to the
health center.
“It gets our health education team
right out front,” Ryan said. “We’ve al
ways wanted to have a presence in
some of the other areas students
congregate in, and the EMU is one of
those places.”
The existing peer health education
office will remain in the health center,
but the new resource center in the
EMU will increase visibility and will
more than triple the amount of space
for peer health educators to do educa
tion outreach, offering brochures and
general information, blood pressure
screening, cholesterol screening and
occasional discussion groups, Health
Educator Annie Dochnahl said.
“The purpose of the education
program is to extend health messages,”
Dochnahl said. “Being in the EMU will
help us do that.”
The resource center will also offer
computer assessments of health issues,
such as those on body mass index and
high-risk alcohol consumption.
Dochnahl said she hopes the new loca
tion will help the health educators
reach more students.
“It’s a chance for students to get in
formation they otherwise might not
have tapped in on,” Dochnahl said.
University peer health education
practicum student Urva Kuzma is one
of three educators whose primary
term projects are to get the resource
center open and running. She spent
Friday decorating the center for
Valentine’s Day and National Con
dom Day, hanging streamers and set
ting out packets of condoms wrapped
in red cellophane.
She said many students don’t real
ize the education resources available
at the heath center, such as books
and workshops.
“Unless you go in the health center,
you’re not going to know about it,” Kuz
ma said. “This location and its accessi
bility hopefully will draw a lot more
HEALTH CENTER, page 8